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Thomas Ott — The Number — 73304−23−4153−6−96−8

I recently made my first foray into the visu­ally over­loaded world of the graphic novel with Thomas Ott’s The Num­ber. The Num­ber is a fine (pre­sum­ably) linoleum cut para­ble about the unclos­able door pushed through by a man who finds a num­ber sequence on a slip of paper after a state exe­cu­tion, dropped by the …

09.18.2010 – 7:01:PM | By Matt Carney | Posted in Blog | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

15. Argument (9.1.2008)

A heated (and won­drously point­less) philo­soph­i­cal argu­ment with the SITA gang. Insti­gated by read­ing “The Guide” by R.K. Narayan.

12.10.2008 – 10:05:AM | By Matt Carney | Posted in India | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

20. Fury (11.12.2008)

While con­sumed with research for my ethno­graphic paper (Which is online. And posted under “ethnog­ra­phy.”), I didn’t have much time for reflec­tion in my jour­nal. How­ever, after the state elec­tions, I was enraged by the pass­ing of Propo­si­tion 8. Though I con­tem­plated buy­ing a rifle and learn­ing to use it, or threat­en­ing some sen­a­tors and oth­ers, I wrote this thought­ful rant instead.

12.10.2008 – 10:03:AM | By Matt Carney | Posted in India | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (0)